Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances.

Grace is the offer of God's ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.

Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.

We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.

Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.

One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.

When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.

Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.

The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’

Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.

If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.

Never try to have more faith - just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you'll trust Him.

The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.

Peace doesn't come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.

Beware of the conversationalist who adds "in other words." He is merely starting afresh.

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.